I found out the other day that the carriage return can be used as a delimiter when converting text to columns. This is useful if you have in-cell carriage returns that you want to get rid of. (To do an in-cell carriage return in the first place, you just hit Alt+Enter.)
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Highlight your column of data, making sure the columns to its right are empty. On the Data ribbon, hit Text to Columns. Hit the Delimited option, and then check the Other option. Click in the box where you are to type the delimiter and press CTRL+J.
Click the Data tab on the Ribbon and choose “From Text”. Choose the text file you want to import and double click. This will open the Text Import Wizard. Choose your data type and which row you want to start the data at and click next. From Excel’s “Data” tab, click the “Text to Columns” button found in the “Data Tools” section. This will bring up the “Convert Text to Columns Wizard” window and allows you to begin separating your data. From the options, select the “Delimited” radio button and click “Next” to continue. Text import wizard on Excel for Mac doesn't allow you to scroll data window to see all columns In Excel for Mac 2016, I've discovered that when trying to import a CSV text file, you can only view the leftmost set of columns that will fit in the data preview window (e.g., to set their data type, etc.). The following worked for me on Excel for Mac 2011 and Windows Excel 2002: Using iconv on Mac, convert the file to UTF-16 Little-Endian + name it.txt (the.txt extension forces Excel to run the Text Import Wizard): iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE filename.csv filenameUTF-16LE.csv.txt. Open the file in Excel and in the Text Import Wizard choose.
Hey presto, text to columns!
In the last section, you saw how to do a basic text import. The Text Import Wizard offers a lot of options to customize this type of import. You can specify how you’d your text data to be imported, minimizing the amount of cleanup that you need to do on the data.
In this section, we’ll use Ideal_Gas_Property_Data.txt as the data source. Go to Data > Get External Data > From Text, and open that file. The first window of the Text Import Wizard will open.
There are two main types of data files that you’ll import into Excel. Delimited files have a character separating the columns (i.e. a tab stop). Fixed width files have a specific number of characters in each column.
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First, we’ll see how this data looks with the Delimited option. Choose it, then click Next.
Delimiters can be virtually any character. Tab, comma and space are the most common. The tab character is selected by default. However, in the preview window, there are no black lines separating the column – this tells us that Excel hasn’t found any tab delimiters. Unselect Tab, and choose Space. Now, black lines will appear between the columns:
Excel recognizes that the columns of data are separated by spaces. It automatically checks the box for “Treat consecutive delimiters as one.” In this text file, there are multiple spaces between the columns of data. If this box was not checked, each space would indicate a new column.
Click Next, then Finish. Choose a location on the worksheet to store the data and click OK.
Viewing the data in the spreadsheet exposes a flaw in selecting the space delimiting option. Gas names such as “carbon dioxide” and “carbon monoxide” are composed of two words separated by a space. Excel interprets this space as a column separator, so those rows have an extra column and all of the data is shifted:
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Although we could manually clean up the data, those changes would be lost if the data were refreshed.
Instead, we’ll choose better options in the Text Import Wizard. Right-click on the data and select Edit Text Import.
Next, double-click on the file Ideal_Gas_Property_Data.txt.
Next, double-click on the file Ideal_Gas_Property_Data.txt.
This time, instead of the Delimited option, choose Fixed width. Click Next. Excel will automatically determine where the columns should be, and places break lines as separators between them. To move a break line, click and drag it to a new position.
You can also add or remove break lines. To add one, click at the top of the preview window, below the ruler (where the arrowheads are showing for the existing break lines). To delete one, double-click on it, or drag it away from the preview window.
Don’t worry about any excess spaces before or after an entry. Excel will clean those up. Just adjust the break lines so that each column includes all of the intended data. In this case, the defaults are fine. Click Next.
The third window of the Text Import Wizard contains options to set a data format for each column. The General format is appropriate for most data. It treats numeric values as numbers, date values as dates, and everything else as text. You can also specify a date or text format. Click each column in the preview window and set its type.
You also have the option of omitting columns. Sometimes, data files contain more information than you need. You can select any of these columns and choose Do not import column (skip) to remove it from the data table. For example, if you only need the columns containing the gas name and the constant pressure specific heat, you can remove the other columns. Select the Formula column, then click Do not import column (skip). The header will change from “General” to “Skip Column” (see the headers in the image below). Repeat for the other unnecessary columns.
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Click Finish, and you’ll have a table containing only the pertinent data, with no additional cleanup required.
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